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* [2]China Must Fix Global Currency Crisis
George Soros | FT | 7 October 2010
Managed exchange rate has worked well for China, by allowing state to
build great wealth without much taxation. But in China's interest now to
let yuan rise, because otherwise global economy will seize up
* [3]Crow
Susan Orlean | Free Range | 7 October 2010
Short and sweet. On the incidental pleasures of keeping a rooster. It's
not something you usually intend to do, the hens produce the eggs
anyway, but unless you're a certified chicken sexer, mistakes can be
made
* [4]Hunt For Dubai Hit-Men
Chip Cummins et al | WSJ | 8 October 2010
Follow-up on assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai
in January. More glimpses into Mossad tradecraft. One of the killers may
be a Brit who disappeared, reported dead, in 1973
* [5]Who Owns AIG?
Steven Davidoff | DealBook | 7 October 2010
It's still the American taxpayer, but the original bailout was a rush
job that has needed to be tidied up. Succinct account of how the US
government is restructuring ownership, in preparation for resale
* [6]Berlin-Baghdad Express
A.C. Grayling | B&N Review | 8 October 2010
Highly informative account of Sean McMeekin's "brilliant" book on
great-game diplomacy in run-up to WW1. British empire contained
one-third of world's Muslims. Kaiser wanted Turkey to help trigger a
Muslim uprising
* [7]Stuxnet
Bruce Schneier | On Security | 7 October 2010
Chapter and verse on the putative anti-Bushehr virus, from highly
regarded security blogger. The more you read about this, even from
somebody who doesn't want to hype it, the better the story gets
* [8]Confessions Of A Used-Book Salesman
Michael Savitz | Slate | 6 October 2010
If you spend 80 hours a week trawling junk shops with a barcode scanner,
you can make a modest living in the second-hand book trade. But be
prepared for all the other people who are doing exactly the same
* Topic: Invented Languages
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From Na'avi and Klingon to Esperanto and Pascal, by way of Polari and
gender-neutral pronouns. Most... [9]Continue reading...
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